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72. Skip Wise, basketball

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Baltimore Sun photo by William Mortimer
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January 25, 1973
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Perhaps Baltimore's best player ever, this guard led Dunbar (34 straight wins) to its greatest victory in 1973, scoring 39 points in a defeat of DeMatha (43 straight wins). At Clemson, Wise became the first freshman to make the All-Atlantic Coast Conference first team (18.5 points per game) and then signed with the American Basketball Association's Baltimore Claws, who soon folded. Wise was later imprisoned for drug-related crimes.